She was a black woman, who fought for women’s right and for the blacks rights.
She grew up on a farm in the South with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester. They all were members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a century-old independent black denomination founded by free blacks.
As a child, she went to an industrial school for girls and later enrolled at Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes, but she had to drop out, because her grandmother and later her mother became ill.
She joined the NAACP, which she learned about when she got married to Raymond Parks who already was a member. They got married when she was 19. Both her and here husband worked with many social justice organizations.
Rosa was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP as the only woman working there.
In December 1943, Parks became active in the civil rights movement.
Come up with a few examples of racial segregation in the South (the Jim Crow Laws text may come in handy).
It could be the schools, public restaurants, public bathrooms, public libraries and public water fountains, where blacks and whites couldn’t be at the same, and the blacks would always be in a poorer condition or not be there at all. That was also what the Jim Crow Laws where about.
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